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Network service for providing related contentRelated Patent Categories: Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures, Database Or File Accessing, Distributed Or Remote AccessNetwork service for providing related content description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070150483, Network service for providing related content. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of, claims the benefit of, and priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/151,115, filed on Jun. 13, 2005, titled "System and Method for Retrieving and Displaying Information Relating to Electronic Documents Available from an Information Network", the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. This application also relates to four co-pending applications identified by Attorney Docket No. INF-001CP2, entitled "Preprocessing Content to Determine Relationships," U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______; Attorney Docket No. INF-001CP3, entitled "Determining Advertising Placement on Preprocessed Content," U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______; Attorney Docket No. INF-001CP4, entitled "Disambiguation for Preprocessing Content to Determine Relationships," U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______; and Attorney Docket No. INF-001CP5, entitled "Enabling One-Click Searching Based on Elements Related to Displayed Content," U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, the disclosure of each is hereby incorporated herein by reference. TECHNOLOGICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to information technology. More particularly, the present invention relates to retrieving, organizing and displaying information relating to electronic documents available on a network BACKGROUND [0003] Current "on line" informational sources, such as on line newspapers and magazines, do not provide a user an easy means to navigate through a mass of information and quickly view a particular item of interest. Further, these sites typically only display the item of interest, and do not provide secondary material that may be related to the item of interest and which the user may be interested in also viewing. For example, if a user wishes to read a particular article, the user "clicks" on the article and only the article is displayed. However, if the user would like to find articles or related information on one aspect of an article, or read additional articles on the same subject, the user typically must type a keyword into a search engine located at the site, which produces a list of articles having the keyword. This is a tedious task, and often requires the user to sift through a long list of articles to determine relevancy. [0004] Another disadvantage of conventional on line publications is that, in order for a user to read an entire publication or sections of a particular publication, the user must select an article and, after finished reading the article, click the back button and select another article. This two click function, if spread across a large volume of reading, is time consuming, particularly because it requires the loading of multiple pages before an entire section or publication can be read. Also, if a user wishes to read multiple publications, the user must access multiple websites, which is also time consuming. Additionally, each websites uses a different navigation method, and such inconsistency between websites is an impediment to reading large volumes of material quickly. Further, tracking a particular interest is difficult to do online, and typically requires a keyword search. Websites offering a tracking feature typically send material on a particular subject to a user's e-mail, thereby often loading the user's inbox with large volumes of information. [0005] Conventional products which attempt to address the abovementioned disadvantages include RSS feeders and PDF readers. However, the content of RSS feeders depends on what the publisher chooses to put in the feed, and is typically incomplete. Also, such feeders do not allow a user to track interests or to simply conduct a search relating to elements mentioned in a news article. PDF readers require large file downloads and result in images which are often difficult to read because the size of the screen is typically different from the original publication. [0006] Any problems or poor experiences encountered by a user become the same problems and issues for publishers, or more generally content providers, that provide on line newspapers and magazines. These content providers want a positive user experience, by providing web pages that make finding related content easy for the user and make the navigation experience easy and successful (e.g., find content of interest). These content providers want to provide their users an easier and richer experience so that the users will keep returning back to their sites. To create a system that provides such an experience, the content provider has to identify talent within its organization capable of developing the technology to provide this user experience. The content provider also needs to invest in developing its technology and infrastructure to handle these issues and has to deal with storing an ever increasing amount of content and related content available throughout the Internet. SUMMARY [0007] The techniques described herein provide, among other things, a service over a network (e.g., web services) that enables content providers to provide an easy and successful user experience without having to develop or maintain the complete infrastructure themselves. Advantageously, the content provider simply provides certain parameters to the service to obtain information to enrich their web pages. For example, through the use of the described services, the content provider obtains information about content related to a piece of content (e.g., a text article) that the content provider displays. This enables the content provider to display the related content (or links to the related content), which may be from the content provider's web pages, from the content provider's affiliate's web pages, and/or from other unrelated content provider's web pages. With this information received from the described web service, the content provider can enrich its displayed page with related content, advantageously resulting in a positive user experience and viewers returning in subsequent visits, all of which engender long-term loyalty. Such return viewers and increases in new viewers, due to ease of use and success in finding content in which the user has high interest, enable the content provider to have increased page views and potential for higher advertising revenues. Another advantage is that as multiple publishers use the described services, the experience for the user can become more consistent across any of the unrelated content provider's websites that use the services. [0008] An aspect of the present invention provides a system and method for displaying information regarding electronic documents available from a variety of online sources, such as online newspapers and magazines, in an ordered format. [0009] Another aspect of the present invention provides a system and method for users to conduct research on a topic of interest mentioned in an electronic document by providing access to other electronic documents and online resources that are related to the topic of interest. [0010] Another aspect of the present invention provides a system and method for users to keep track of a topic of interest on an ongoing basis by providing the user the ability to define which type of electronic documents to be displayed. [0011] Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description. [0012] One approach is retrieving and displaying information relating to electronic documents available from an informational network. In one aspect, there is a method for retrieving and displaying information relating to a plurality of electronic documents available from an informational network according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention including the steps of: retrieving information relating to location of each of the plurality of documents available on the informational network; identifying a plurality of elements in each of the plurality of documents, each of the plurality of elements being assigned to a descriptive category selected from a list of descriptive categories; applying a score to each of the plurality of elements in each of the plurality of documents based on relevance of each of the elements to its corresponding document; displaying at least one of the plurality of documents using the retrieved information relating to the location of the plurality of documents on the informational network; for each descriptive category, displaying a list of elements selected from the displayed document that have a score above a predetermined score; and for each element in each of the list of elements, providing a network link to a list of documents in which the element has a score above the predetermined score. [0013] In at least one embodiment, the step of retrieving a plurality of electronic documents includes eliminating extraneous information from the documents that is not related to the text of the documents. [0014] In at least one embodiment, for each document, the step of identifying a plurality of elements includes determining whether at least one of a plurality of entity names pre-listed in a name catalog appears in the document, the plurality of entity names being pre-categorized in the name catalog based on the plurality of descriptive categories. [0015] In at least one embodiment, the step of determining whether at least one of a plurality of entity names pre-listed in the name catalog appears in the document includes determining whether an alias of at least one of the plurality of entity names appears in the document, the alias being pre-listed along with its associated entity name in the name catalog. [0016] In at least one embodiment, the step of identifying each of the plurality of elements includes identifying at least one entity name by natural language processing. [0017] In at least one embodiment, the method further includes a step of determining whether the at least one entity name identified by natural language processing should be added to the name catalog. [0018] In at least one embodiment, the step of determining whether the at least one entity name identified by natural language processing should be added to the name catalog includes prompting a user to enter the at least one entity name to the name catalog. [0019] In at least one embodiment, the plurality of descriptive categories includes people, places, products or companies. [0020] In at least one embodiment, for each document, the step of identifying a plurality of elements includes identifying at least one element by applying a rule-based algorithm to the document to identify the at least one element. 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